TO THE EDITOR—We read the case report by Solari et al [1] with great interest because the authors presented a fatal case of relapsing Clostridium difficile infection treated with fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) using a gastrojejunostomy tube. This tube was placed through an already existing gastric feeding tube, and the patient died 4 days later due to septic shock; Pseudomonas aeruginos...

Due to the recent increase in trade, travel and political and social co-operation, language competence has become a key skill in modern Europe. Great efforts have been made to improve language training at all education levels. Whereas in the past language teaching was mainly related to cultural themes with an emphasis on literature, communicative aspects in everyday international contact situat...

Institutions of Higher Education are beginning to place a greater emphasis on quality teaching and student learning. However, few faculty receive any type of teacher training prior to entering the academy. As a result, faculty development is one likely solution to teacher quality issues. But faculty development is faced with serious shortcomings that impede its ability to improve teacher qualit...

I went to Carnegie Tech after spending my first 6 professional years designing computers at Digital Equipment Corporation to be part of the startup faculty of the computer science department. Allen Newell, Alan Perlis, and Rod Williams, who headed the Electrical Engineering Department, made this career changing choice easy for me. Like everyone who knew Allen, I feel deeply honored to have know...

Teachers enter the profession with enthusiasm for new adventure. Unfortunately, when they start working, encounter circumstances that give rise to stress. The present study, which used a sample of 550 participants from 50 primary schools selected Kisarawe district in Coastal Region Tanzania, examines extent stress among school teachers and factors influencing Overall, results indicate teachers’...

The engineering education field has concentrated more on rationality and knowledge than emotions, even though the latter are important in students’ learning processes profession. This study examined descriptions of roles teaching their perceived emotions. A qualitative thematic analysis was conducted data from interviews with 26 students. results show that emotions influenced by perceptions 1) ...

Alexander Grothendieck was born in Berlin on 28 March 1928. His father, Sascha Shapiro, an anarchist originally from Russia, took an active part in the revolutionary movements first in Russia, and then in Germany, during the 1920s, where he met Hanka Grothendieck, Alexander’s mother. After the Nazis came to power in Germany it was too dangerous for a Jewish revolutionary to stay there, and the ...